Meanings
- One of 58 counties in California, United States. County seat: San Andreas.
It may tell you that the official currency of Switzerland is the euro (it’s actually the Swiss franc) or that Mark Twain’s Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County could not only jump but talk. A.I. researchers call this generation of untruths “hallucination.”
2023 January 10, Cade Metz, “A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2023
Origin
- Spanishcalaveras“skulls”
- EnglishCalaveras County
From Spanish calaveras (“skulls”) + county.
More words from Spanish
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Calaveras County. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Calaveras%20County
“Calaveras County.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Calaveras%20County. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Calaveras County,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Calaveras%20County.
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